Today is a great day for baseball and for America, as we celebrate one of our proudest moments as a society: the day Jackie Robinson integrated baseball. April 15th, 1947 was a landmark day for equality in America, breaking down segregation in baseball and paving the way for the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther [...]
Everyone has at least one guy on their fantasy team who screws them every year. This year, my guy is Brian Roberts. He’s been a steady second baseman for his whole career, and there was no reason to believe that would change any time soon. But Brian Roberts had different ideas, and he’s now on [...]
Hi everyone, and welcome to our first installment of Great Moments in Trash Talking. In honor of baseball finally being in full swing, pun intended, I thought I’d tell you the story of my favorite piece of trash talking in baseball’s greatest rivalry.
It was August 1, 1973 and the Yankees were playing the Red Sox. [...]
January 6, 2010 – 10:34 am
Randy Johnson is retiring from baseball. No longer can we tune in to watch him do his scarecrow imitation on the mound, or see the game’s greatest mullet in action. He leaves the game as one of the greatest pitchers of all time, and definitely the only person in the history of the world to [...]
December 2, 2009 – 1:37 pm
Dearest Grace,
I received your letter several days ago, but decided to let it’s message sink in for a while before replying. I can’t tell you how much your words meant to me. I want to let you know that I understand how you feel. I have often wondered what would happen if we were to [...]
November 25, 2009 – 1:35 pm
Grace Dunkley-Asphall is a poet and writer who I happened to work with a few years ago. Since we both run our own blogs, we decided to do a swap in which we would post on each other’s sites. Here is Grace’s entry for TOF. Stay tuned for part II when I post a rebuttal [...]
November 5, 2009 – 8:15 am
The New York Yankees haven’t won a World Series in nine hours. George Steinbrenner rose from his sarcophagus early this morning furious that his team hadn’t won any more championships while he was sleeping. He immediately called Brian Cashman and woke him up to scream at him about the Yankees need to win a 28th [...]
November 3, 2009 – 2:59 pm
Phillies’ manager Charlie Manual announced his starting pitchers for game 6 and 7 of the World Series: Cliff Lee. The Phillies’ ace is coming off a game 5 win on Monday, after pitching a complete-game win in game 1, and will be coming off a two day rest and zero day rest between his next [...]
November 2, 2009 – 8:46 am
Yes, Johnny Damon became famous as one of the key guys on a team that bragged about being a bunch of idiots. Yes, he married a stripper who he started dating because his friend Derek Lowe, who was nailing her at the time, said “Dude, you have to sleep with this chick. It’s awesome!” But [...]
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